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Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr And... David Lynch At Radio City?

One million children need to learn how to meditate and half of the original Beatles are going to help them out. Yeah, that's right, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are scheduled the headline the David Lynch Foundation's benefit concert, "Change Begins Within," at Radio City Music Hall in April, which is a benefit concert to raise funds for one-million "at-risk" children so they can learn how to meditate.

McCartney and Starr, Donovan, Sheryl Crow, Moby and a host of others will be performing on April 4 to help Lynch with his cause. David Lynch launched his foundation in 2005 in hopes of financing scholarships for students in middle and high schools that wanted to learn about Transcendental Meditation, which Lynch credits as a life-long tool that can help kids overcome stress and violence, as well as gain success later in life. We figure, if it worked for him, TM can't be too bad.

McCartney, like Lynch, is an advocate of Transcendental Meditation as well, having studied it in India with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. He has accredited the practice for helping him with his music and success over the past 40 years. "In moments of madness, it has helped me find moments of serenity," said McCartney. "I would like to think that it would help provide them [children] a quiet haven in a not-so-quiet world."